I'm pretty sure this is the first thing I've posted on this board... For midterms I had to make a project for my "math in art and nature" class using one of the concepts we've talked about in class. I used the Fibonacci sequence (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibonacci_number) to determine the size of the squares. I outlined them in black with a stem stitch and filled them in with just a running stitch (or is it called something else?)The picture isn't that great but I have no sunlight. And doubt there will be any for a while...

If I'm remembering correctly, there is a Norse technique that is similar to this in which the stitching was a single stitch but the design itself was created by changing the thread color. Gah! I'll have to think on this and come back with the name of the technique. Anyone else know?

If I'm remembering correctly, there is a Norse technique that is similar to this in which the stitching was a single stitch but the design itself was created by changing the thread color. Gah! I'll have to think on this and come back with the name of the technique. Anyone else know?

From what I've been able to dig up today, it was called underside couching. Imagine a blue thread being laid across the top of your black fabric. A thread would come up from underneath on one side of the blue thread and then directly over to the other side of the blue tacking it down. This is couching. You can use the spacing between the couch stitches to create motifs, which is what I remembered.